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The Petrified Forest(1955)
Status: Released
Date: 1955-05-30
68%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 16m
Overview:
Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Showcase Productions
Movie: The Petrified Forest
Top 10 Billed Cast
Humphrey Bogart
Duke Mantee
Henry Fonda
Alan Squier
Lauren Bacall
Gabby Maple
Paul Hartman
Jason Maple
Jack Warden
Boze
Richard Jaeckel
Ruby
Joseph Sweeney
Gramps
Natalie Schafer
Mrs. Chisholm
Richard Gaines
Mr. Chisholm
Jack Klugman
Jackie
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Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
Release Date
1955-05-30
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6.8
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